A: "When spring is strong, the auspicious animal Kirin is attracted by this lasting bouquet and comes to look for it;" The warm sunshine shines, the flowers bloom orderly at four o'clock, and all kinds of birds sing happily and tactfully in the blooming sea of flowers, and the birds are crisp and sweet. "
This is the Spring Festival couplets of Yingruimen on the east side outside the Cuimen in the Forbidden City: Lin, or Kirin, is a traditional auspicious animal in China, the toe of Lin and Kirin? Traces are metaphors of noble behavior. Fu Xian of the Jin Dynasty wrote a poem "A Gift to He Xiaowang": "If you don't pursue heights, your feet will be hard to catch up."
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Spring Festival couplets, also known as "Spring Signs", "Door Pairs" and "Couplets", are one of the folk Spring Festival customs in China. It depicts beautiful images and expresses good wishes with neat, concise and exquisite words, which is a unique literary form in China. Sticking Spring Festival couplets is an important symbol for China people to celebrate the Spring Festival. When people put up couplets at home, it means the official start of the Spring Festival. Every Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should take off beautiful red couplets and stick them on the doors to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, thus increasing the festive atmosphere.